Proverbs 10:20
Proverbs chapter 10 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The tongue of the righteous isaschoice silver: The heart of the wicked is little worth.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The tongue of the righteous isaschoice silver: The heart of the wicked is little worth.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 12:34
Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
- Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
- Proverbs 15:4
A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
- Genesis 6:5
And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken Islikeapples of gold in network of silver.
- Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.